IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141236
accession number:	CM.1142-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: British medals for polar exploration were first issued in 1857, though their issue was not confined to British explorers, and was also made to civilians. This design was first issued in 1904.
The bar for 1910-1913 on this medal indicates that the recipient, whose name is not known, was one of the landing party in the fatal expedition of Captain Scott to the South Pole. Only four such medals were issued in bronze. Furthermore, the second bar was awarded to members of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition under Sir Ernest Shackleton. Sources suggest that only two of the men on that voyage held a bronze medal for a previous expedition, but which of them this medal belonged to, if it has not been tampered with or as has been suggested is only a proof issue, is unknown.
Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Baldwin in 1927.
title:	Polar Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1927


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141236





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal (military)

DATING
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creation date:	1913 - 1916
creation date earliest:	1913
creation date latest:	1916

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: George V (1910-36)
maker: United Kingdom
maker: GEORGIUS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND IMP:

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 33.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 33.45



CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 1st edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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